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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION Liding with large, relief-cast taotie masks on each lobe of the body represent
one of the most popular vessel types in the late Shang and early Western
*2
Zhou periods. Two very similar liding, from the Sackler Collection, cast
A BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD FOOD VESSEL, DING with an additional pair of decsending dragons fanking each taotie mask,
LATE SHANG DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC
are illustrated by R. Bagley in Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler
The tri-lobed body is raised on three columnar legs and is cast above each leg Collections, Washington, D. C., 1987, pp. 486-91, nos. 93 and 94. In his entry
with a large taotie mask with rounded eyes, all reserved on a leiwen ground. A for the one of the Sackler liding, no. 93, Bagley illustrates seven related liding
pair of inverted U-shaped handles rises from the rim. There is a later-added to support his assertion that there was a "wide geographic distribution of the
inscription on one side of the interior. The bronze has a grey and mottled milky- type in late Anyang times", with a continuation into the early Western Zhou
green patina.
8¿ in. (20.7 cm.) high period. Another two liding from a distinguished European collection, were
sold at Chrsitie's New York, 22 March 2019, lot 1502 and 1507.
£30,000-50,000 US$38,000-63,000
€34,000-57,000
晚商 青銅鼎
PROVENANCE:
With C.T. Loo, Paris, by repute. 來源:
Private European Collection, acquired before 1998. 巴黎古董商盧芹齋(1880-1957)(傳)
歐洲重要私人珍藏，於1998年前所購

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